Small businesses will get three-month warning to re-locate

Explaining her first new clause she has proposed to HS2 legislation, Miss Huq told getwestlondon: “There are a number of vulnerable small local businesses I have spoken to who are extremely concerned that they will be forced to close because they will only be given a three-month warning of the need to re-locate.

"For me a year’s breathing space would be a far more sensible proposition.

"Indeed the way the government has rushed through such a vital project with its hugely hefty price-tag."

Rupa also condemned the way that there seems to be special treatment for those living in Tory-voting shire-counties by the Conservative government.

“Urban and suburban constituencies… are not treated the same as rural support zones" she said. "I believe that needs to be looked at.

"We should not accept that suburban or urban dwellers should simply ‘put up with it’.”